12
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Market stalls by an entrance to a Chinese temple, Macau is a 12 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This drawing shows a busy market by a temple gate in old Macau. Carts and people crowd around railings. The gate opens to a roofed temple path beyond. Chinnery sketched this in 1838. He lived in Macau for years and often drew daily life there. Notice how he uses lines to show shadows and depth. Try his other works at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
A drawing depicts a crowded scene of figures gathered near railings that lead through a roofed gateway into a temple. The work is part of an album containing 175 sketches made in China and India. The album was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange, originally comprising 93 drawings by George Chinnery, who lived in Macau from 1825 until his death in 1852.
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George Chinnery (Chinese: 錢納利; 5 January 1774 – 30 May 1852) was an English painter who spent most of his life in Asia, especially India and southern China.
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